Arch Linux

Sekra

Member

From: Finland

Registered: 2008-01-25

Posts: 14

[solved] Konsole starts root shell as default

For some strange reason Konsole seems to be starting a Root shell and asking the password as the default shell. And no, I'm not logged in as root. Any tips on how to change this odd behaviour? Every time I start a new Konsole session or click on the "quick launch" button on the lower left corner of konsole it starts a Root Shell instead of the normal Shell as it is supposed to. Any help you can give would be appreciated (and I'm still using KDE 3.5.8 and I'm a fairly new user to archlinux so I havent used anything outside core, community or extra repos.)

Last edited by Sekra (2008-02-03 15:27:18)

May-C

Member

Registered: 2007-12-28

Posts: 83

Re: [solved] Konsole starts root shell as default

Does the same thing happen if you start xterm? If so maybe it has something to do with your .bashrc

Sekra

Member

From: Finland

Registered: 2008-01-25

Posts: 14

Re: [solved] Konsole starts root shell as default

Nope. xterm seems to start up normally in user mode and it wont even run when I try to run it from a root shell in konsole. I havent done any fiddling with .bashrc in my users home (only added some colors to PS1 in root .bashrc).

Last edited by Sekra (2008-02-03 10:39:13)

attila

Member

Registered: 2006-11-14

Posts: 293

Re: [solved] Konsole starts root shell as default

@Sekra Doing this helps me in the past (Sorry, i use the german language, but i hope you understand what i mean):
- Start konsole
- open a new tab with the standard shell
- close the root shell tab
- Save it unter settings as standard

Sekra

Member

From: Finland

Registered: 2008-01-25

Posts: 14

Re: [solved] Konsole starts root shell as default

finally managed to solve the problem. I had to edit the /home/user/.kde/share/config/konsolerc. There was a line saying default session = su.desktop and I changed it to console.desktop to get Konsole back to "Normal".. Thanks for your help anyway

Edit: Actually I hade to change it again to shell.desktop or Konsole would show the session without any description in the tabs. Doesnt change the end result anyhow.

Last edited by Sekra (2008-02-03 15:30:16)